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(sigh) I couldn't possibly have more contempt for Pitchfork. How does having access to the Mute/SubPop catalogues entitle them to annoint themselves kings of music-geek elitists?? Or worse: indie elitists? They just did a piece on Gang of Four... now I like GoF, but by now they've become a...

and in the same vein: http://farkyaralari.blogspot.com/

http://pdflibrary.wordpress.com/

haha yeah, and don't forget to check out his original music

I think you see this kind of dynamic iterated/aestheticized in Southern Gothic literature. That's why I've always preferred Southern Gothic lit to other American forms of the Gothic: its dread derives from the 'grotesque' of human nature, not the dread of nature as such. Believe it or not...

hey, a yank here in need of some assistance. After discovering Fad Gadget a few months ago, I've been harassing Mute Records about making this set available on iTunes in the States, but alas, no response. Any torrents floating around??? Any Mute Records insiders? Thanks. I'm dying to hear the...

I cut my theory teeth on C-Theory. This was around 1999, they are probably seen as less relevant now but honestly, they still seem cutting-edge to me. There are worse places to start. And I don't want to contradict what everyone else is advising (I'm new here, not looking to cause trouble!)...

I haven't read any of his work (knee-deep in Russian Futurist poetry at the moment), but Paul Auster sounds like someone worth checking out, if you're looking for a non-traditional spin on the crime genre. Bernd Herzogenrath wrote a book about him that looks pretty rad also.

A big hello from Atlanta! I signed up here a few years ago, but visited infrequently and forgot my password. I recently read Mark Fisher's thesis about Gothic Materialism (Masters or PhD??), and remembered this place, so I thought I'd give it another spin.